Iviva Olenick
Brooklyn's Girlfriend, 2012
Iviva Olenick (American, born 1975), Brooklyn's Girlfriend, 2012, embroidery on antique textile, 2 1/4 x 3 1/2 in. Schwartz Art Collection, Harvard Business School, 2012.4.
"I think of my work as an embroidered blog. I use fabric, thread, applique and hand embroidery to create small scale pieces with text and illustrations. Through my work, I comment on contemporary urban culture. I obsess over the anything-goes nature of NYC/Brooklyn dating."—Iviva Olenick